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February is Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month (JDAM) and Temple Beth-El, 3610 Dundee Road, in Northbrook is planning events to create and promote a more inclusive community. "Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month gives us a full month to focus on making our communities stronger and more complete by offering programming, educational and worship opportunities for those with disabilities," said Cantor Faryn H.K. Rudnick at Temple Beth-El. In honor of JDAM, Temple Beth-El will be hosting a special Shabbat service on Friday, February 6 at 7:30 p.m. featuring guest speaker JJ Hanley and the JJ's List Disability Awareness Players. Ms. Hanley is the founder of www.jjslist.com,...

February is Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month (JDAM) and Temple Beth-El, 3610 Dundee Road, in Northbrook is planning events to create and promote a more inclusive community.
"Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month gives us a full month to focus...

France said on Friday it had agreed to put $60 million into a fund managed by the United States to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi death camps, a deal that protects it from future...

Skokie-based LanzaTech closed its fourth round of funding Monday with a $60 million investment by the New Zealand government.LanzaTech plans to revolutionize ethanol production with its gas-eating microbe which converts waste gases into useful chemicals...

In the firefighting world, 20 seconds can be the difference between life, a life-altering burn and death.
From the time a fire alarm is activated on one side of Stevenson High School's oldest building, it takes 20 seconds for that signal to reach the...

The site of a once-thriving factory that used to provide hundreds of jobs now looks like "a bombed out site," according to Batavia officials, who are becoming increasingly frustrated that Siemens won't restore the property to green space.
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Two CTA buses powered exclusively by batteries entered service Wednesday in a $2.5 million electric bus experiment that transit officials expect will be good for the environment, public health and the agency's bottom line over the long run.The two...

In the global competition to make a better hearing aid, smartphones and Bluetooth wireless technology have heightened competition and quickened innovation.
At stake is the biggest hearing aid market in generations, the Baby Boomers — with their...

Fox Valley area FIRST Robotics team #2451, PWNAGE, will be advancing to the FIRST World Championships at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis April 23-26, 2014. FIRST Team 2451 is comprised of 25 area high school students and 2 middle school students. ...

The vacant former Motorola Mobility campus headquarters in Libertyville has been acquired by a Washington, D.C.-based commercial real estate company that plans to remake the space into an “innovation campus.”
BECO Management Inc. said Monday it purchased...

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Want to learn about robotics and other cool stuff? In one year of full-time study, you can become a mechatronics technician, qualified to install, maintain, modify and repair automated, “intelligent” machinery used in manufacturing.
Starting with the...

(BPT) - Does this sound familiar? You tell your spouse all about the aggravating thing that happened at work today. He or she seems to be nodding in agreement, until you ask what you should do about the situation. Your spouse’s response? “Um – could you...

Get rid of those piles of documents, old electronics, and old bicycles at the Arlington Heights Spring Sweep Recycling Day, Saturday, April 27, from 9 a.m. – Noon at the Nokia Siemens Networks Campus, 1501 Shure Drive. Nokia Siemens is located on the...

The Decade of Double Talk has just ended. But maybe it's not the end of anything. Maybe we're simply in the midst of the Era of Euphemism. Or the Millennium of Mumbo Jumbo. In any case, here's a historical and contemporary look at how the enemies of...

It's a dreary, chilly evening, when most folks want to hunker down with a book or favorite TV show. But Batavia Mothers' Club members Jennifer Baerren, Jennifer Meiring and Pam Kent are meeting at the public library to plan the 11th annual Fox Trot 5K...

The European Union opened an in-depth probe of General Electric's $14.1 billion takeover of the power division of French company Alstom on Monday fearing higher prices and less choice. The European Commission made the move Monday after an initial...

Industrial machinery maker Siemens AG says it will cut 7,800 administrative jobs worldwide as part of an effort to streamline the sprawling company and its many businesses. Munich-based Siemens said in a statement Friday that 3,300 of the job losses...

An American and two Japanese scientists won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for inventing a new energy-efficient and environment-friendly light source, leading to the creation of modern LED light bulbs. Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan...

A wireless microphone in the shape of a pen, made by Switzerland's Sonova, can help people with hearing loss understand speech better than those with normal hearing at certain noise levels, a study has shown. As the population ages, the hearing aid...

In 2001, Generac Power Systems joined the wave of American companies shifting production to China. The move wiped out 400 jobs in southeast Wisconsin, but few could argue with management's logic: Chinese companies were offering to make a key component for...